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tonight. >> sandra: this is it. election day is finally here. the polls are open. already nearly 100 million americans have cast their ballots. more than 2/3 of the total vote count in 2016. today caps one of the most highly anticipated presidential races in u.s. history. good morning, everyone. here we are. trace, good morning to you. election day 2020. >> trace: you're right, sandra. this is it. good morning to you i'm trace gallagher. election officials calling for patience saying every vote will be counted. both candidates are delivering their closing arguments and making final pitches to the american people. in a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic, protests for racial justice and plenty

of old fashioned name calling. >> president trump: joe biden is a corrupt politician. what he has done. he has bled america dry. you elected an outsider as president who is finally putting america first. [cheering and applause] if i don't sound like a typical washington politician, it's because, thank you, i'm not a politician. >> it is time for donald trump to pack his bags and go. i honest god believe the vast majority of americans are done the chaos, indifference to american lives. if you elect me your president i'll heal this country. >> sandra: senior advisor and white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany is here. first stacy stiegel is in

dallas and eric shawn in philadelphia. peter doocy is live in scranton, pennsylvania, where joe biden will be holding a campaign event later today. peter, how confident is biden in his chances today? good morning. >> good morning. very confident, sandra. the candidate who is super tishous during the primaries not wanting to predict a particular outcome was not the candidate on stage for one final drive-in event last night. >> the steelers got a big win yesterday, the eagles got a big win last night. we can both be happy. and folks, i have a feeling we're coming together for a big win tomorrow. >> biden started his morning visiting his late son beau's grave site in wilmington. scranton, then philadelphia. the campaign manager is saying under no circumstance will president trump be declared the

winner tonight. that comes after the first five votes counted in dixville notch, new hampshire all went for biden. they think it will take it for days to call it for trump. the president called to say he thinks he will outperform his electoral college total from last time. >> president trump: we think we're winning texas very big, florida very big. we think we're winning arizona very big. i think we'll do very well in north carolina. i think we'll do very well in pennsylvania. we think we're doing very well everywhere and it's more than thinking. we're seeing trends. and so you can tell this isn't just like taking a poll. this is based on trends and we think we're doing very well in states. >> the president was here in scranton for an event yesterday. the former vice president is

making one more stop here as he looks to trade the title former vice president for president elect. >> trace: a federal judge blocked a bid to toss out tens of thousands of ballots early votes cast at drive through locations in harris county, home to houston and largely democratic stronghold. republicans followed with an appeal to disallow drive through voting on election day. that was denied by the harris county clerk but announced the closure of nine out of 10 drive through locations today. the justice department sending monitors to polling states in 18 states today including battlegrounds pennsylvania, ohio, florida, wisconsin. monitors will guard against potential harassment, intimidation and discrimination. the number of areas the d.o.j. is observing is down from previous presidential elections.

in 2016 monitors were sent to 67 polling sites in 28 states. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in kayleigh mcenany trump 2020 campaign senior advisor and white house press secretary. the campaign wasn't necessarily part of that litigation in texas. obviously the party, the republican party saw an issue with that and wanted to throw out the 120,000 votes. where did the campaign stand on that issue? >> i spoke with our attorneys this morning. we haven't engaged on that case. any further litigation we'll decide ongoing on election day and beyond. >> sandra: what you just heard from the biden campaign is that they under no circumstances according to a spokesperson for the biden campaign will be -- will there be a declared winner on election night. when you heard that what did you think? >> i thought of hillary clinton. i thought of hillary clinton who appallingly said that under

no circumstance should joe biden concede. under every circumstance our campaign believes that tonight will be a landslide. you have the trafalgar poll. the only poll to show president trump leading in michigan in 2016 saying he will win by three points. they have him up two points in pennsylvania. we believe this will be a landslide. for the biden campaign to come out and double down on hillary clinton's egregious statement that no circumstance should you concede tells you all you need to know. they're on the campaign trail even today. >> sandra: the president reflected on what he has seen on the part of joe biden's campaigning this week and compared it to four years ago. here was the president a short time ago. >> president trump: i noticed that biden went out and i think he is campaigning a little because he is worried. we've seen tremendous swing changes. we've seen actually the last three days this reminds me -- i hope it reminds me of four years ago. tremendous changes have taken place over the last week.

>> sandra: so what about that? are you potentially looking back? we heard the president this morning talking about winning as many electoral votes as he did in 2016. when you look at the polls many would say is that really a possibility? how is the campaign feeling this morning? >> look, when we went into 2016, ohio was up for grabs, florida was up for grabs. as i sit here today, ohio we believe is a lock. you had the biden campaign pulling ad spending there. a state has predicted any president except two. florida, historic turnout in miami-dade county. we won 13 days of election day early vote. for the biden campaign going out trying to catch up with us. i got back at nearly 4:00 a.m. last night. president trump got off the trail at nearly 4:00 a.m. we

left it all on the field. he took his case to the american voters. you have biden finally out of the basement on election day trying to catch up with president trump. voters are wise and smart. they see if joe biden would not fight for your vote he will not fight for you as president. he can try to make up time here on election day but voters see through that act and share -- charade. >> sandra: pennsylvania could come down to that one state. the president's tweet later flagged by twitter i should point out on pennsylvania. the supreme court decision on voting in pennsylvania is a very dangerous one, the president says. it will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire system of laws and also induce violence in the streets, something must be done. why did the president decide to take that angle on the supreme court decision on pennsylvania? he is calling it dangerous and saying it will induce violence. if those votes are postmarked,

the ballots are postmarked by election day there are three days left for those to be tallied. >> i talked to the attorneys again this morning. what is happening here is the pennsylvania constitution as passed by the legislature says this, that ballots should only be counted as they arrive on election day. what the court did in pennsylvania is say no, we can count ballots that arrive up to three days after election day. that's not how it works. the u.s. constitution says leather decide the time, manner and place when elections are spoken. we believe the court is wrong. the supreme court, by the way, has not fully ruled on this. we'll take our case to the supreme court as needed. we don't think it will come down to that. i predict now we win nevada, minnesota. i do believe president trump has a landslide and this talk of litigation is nothing. >> sandra: interesting. obviously pennsylvania is talked about a lot. it could be crucial for both

candidates in securing enough electoral votes. talk about the map. look at some of the northern states. how the president is doing in wisconsin, for example. if he is indeed able to secure those sun belt states that he won and decided the election back in 2016. >> so wisconsin has been trending republican as a state. we believe we'll win there. one thing that i think is indicative of where we stand is the des moines register poll that came out a few days ago and everyone was anticipating that poll because it was the poll that foreshadowed president trump's landslide, 306 electoral votes in 2016. it showed him ahead by 7. this year this cycle it shows him ahead by 7. that's indicative of believe of what is going to happen in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan victory. indiana and nevada. the story of this election is this. the latino vote came to president trump. the black vote came to

president trump in numbers that we haven't seen because he has been a president for the people fighting for the black community, the latino community, every american bringing us a historic economy. joe biden brought us the slowest economic recovery since world war ii. getting rid of obamacare that raised premiums and drug costs. the story of this election a president who fought for the people and the people who showed up to fight for the president. i am getting reports in florida 200 people in line when they showed up. our voters turn out on election day. today is the day the american people speak and endorse president trump. >> sandra: we'll look at that in a moment. when it comes to the president's travels today, i know we'll see him heading to arlington a short time from now. what will we see as far as viewing tonight on behalf of the president and the campaign? what are the plans? >> he is going to be meeting us here at the campaign in short order. we'll be at the white house watching the returns come in. we're all very excited. this is a president who did 34

rallies here in the last few days. he has fought for the american people and today they fight for him. >> sandra: kayleigh mcenany, thanks for king things off with us this morning. -- kicking things off for us this morning. bret baier and martha maccallum will have special coverage tonight beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. it is election day. >> trace: national guard troops activated in more than a dozen states ahead of any election-related unrest where security is getting beefed up. voting underway as a record number of americans have already cast ballots. which candidate could benefit from this massive early turnout? we'll get into all of that next. >> president trump: who has voted so far? has anyone voted? good. you are saving it, right? you're saving it for tuesday, right?

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>> sandra: joe biden now speaking in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. let's listen. >> in the state of pennsylvania, from france in 1807 and, you know, it's a long, long history. good to be home.

i know everybody says why do you keep calling it home? well, you know, i left here when i was going into the fourth grade but i came home almost all summers every summer. when i got married to my wife my wedding party, from where i grew up. that's where i learned like you did. i learned on my grandfather on washington avenue that money does not determine your wealth. i learned that like anything -- i learned that basic possibility everybody has was look out for the other guy and look out what's going on. beware what's going on. so, you know, my dad used to have an expression when we left scranton moved down to delaware, he said joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck.

it is about your dignity and about respect it's about who we are. about being able to -- [inaudible] well, guess what? a lot of people can't say that now. a lot of people can't look their kids in the eye and say it will be okay. i ran for three reasons and i will stop not keep you out here. number one i said i wanted to restore the soul of the country. i wasn't being melodramatic. restore basic decency and honor to the white house. i saw the people come out of the fields in charlottesville carrying the torches, [inaudible] talking about how this country was so bad. i disee i had i had to rouen. -- i decided i had to run.

my granddaughters came to see me to say pop, you have to run. we know it will be ugly. they knew they had a father who was the attorney general of the state and the second reason we ran we have to restore the backbone of the country. you all know it >> sandra: you have been listening to joe biden on election day in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania, talking about growing up there saying money doesn't determine wealth, a message his father shared with him. his campaign saying today is the day we'll work to get every vote out. he has been talking about the reasons that he is running first and foremost to restore the soul of the country, he said and to restore basic decency and honor. joe biden the first of a couple stops he will make today. he will move on to philadelphia a bit later on. we'll be watching both candidates as we work our way through election day 2020. >> trace: both candidates making their closing arguments. joining me now is marc thiessen.

we didn't mention this, almost 100 million people have already voted, marc. i want to put on the screen as we see joe biden talking to his crowd. i want to put up a breakdown of the early voting numbers. the theme there is the democrats clearly have benefited by early voting. the republicans, marc, really putting their money on today. >> 100 million is a record. it could be enthusiasm or nothing. the reality is it doesn't tell you anything about what will happen in the final vote tally. if democrats turned out every one of their voters in early voting and republicans turn out more people on election day republicans win. the early voting is largely vast majority of the people would have voted anyway on

election day. they're voting because there is a pandemic and they feel safer voting early or because democrats have made a big push for early voting. not surprising they have a slight advantage in the early voting turnout. i don't think it tells us anything about the final results tonight or whenever we get those. >> trace: joe biden wrapping up his event in scranton. giving the bull horn to somebody else. some believe overall voter turnout could be 67, 68% maybe. pretty high. what do you make of that? does it matter the number of people who turn out, where they turn out or is it both? what do you think? >> i think it's both. i think it matters -- the turnout matters. donald trump, you look at the rallies he has had. enormous enthusiasm. one of the most loyal, fire-up bases in american history. what do reluctant trump voters do. we've seen the enthusiastic voters voting early.

if you look at trump's 2016 margin, 20% of his voters said they voted for him but didn't like him. four years later a lot still don't like him. they feel like the editors of the "pittsburgh post-gazette". we don't like his manners or how he talks but we like his policies. a process to decide. those voters struggling with the vote will make their decision today and determine the result of this election whether they come home to donald trump and vote for him again or give joe biden the nod. >> trace: some call them shy voters. you call them reluctant. >> president trump: we have a lot of people that say we don't want to talk to you and then they go vote for trump, right? the hidden voter or whatever they call them. somebody said they are the shy voters. my people are not shy. >> i think we know there is enthusiasm and see it across the country. the question is, is the voter

enthusiasm deep enough to get him enough votes. >> i don't think it is. the shy voter is the trump enthusiast who wears a maga hat inside but not outside. doesn't put the trump sign on his lawn or tell the pollster he will vote for donald trump. there is 20% of the electorate. 56% of americans say they are better off now than four years ago. there is a gap between the people who say they are voting for donald trump and who think they are better off under donald trump. those reluctant voters who like trump's policies, like the way he has led our economy, want to get back to the pre-covid economy that was terrific and believe he is the best person to do it but don't like his manner and the way he talks. they have been struggling with their vote and they'll decide the election today. >> trace: a fair assessment. well soon find out. good of you to join us. thank you. >> sandra: election officials in philadelphia beginning the task of processing hundreds of

thousands of mail-in ballots saying the final results could take days. plus joe biden heading to scranton as we saw just moments ago talking to supporters on the ground there. will his home state vote to send him to the white house? biden surrogate senator chris coons will join us live next. it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal.

>> sandra: it is the bottom of the hour. time for top stories. americans now heading to the

polls to make their choices. nearly 100 million ballots have already been cast. >> trace: covid-19 cases surging across the country. new seven day average sitting over 81,000 cases, the highest average on record since the beginning of the pandemic. >> sandra: and a terror attack in vienna leaving four people dead and at least 16 others injured. the gunman was also killed. authorities say the 20-year-old who had been convicted of trying to join the islamic state in syria. the latest on those stories and more download the fox news app. take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of your screen to get started. >> trace: election workers have begun processing hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots at the philadelphia convention center and making a massive effort to count mail-in and absentee ballots quickly but also urging patience. eric shawn live for us in philadelphia. good morning. how long might it take to have the full count? >> good morning, trace.

in the city where american democracy was born in independence hall a few blocks from me. the founding fathers could not envision what's going on in the philadelphia convention center. the counting will continue until friday. it is a massive operation inside of election workers, 2 1/2 million mail-in ballots have been sent in by citizens of the keystone state. roughly 400,000 from philadelphia alone. ballots have been stored in a locked room and go through a machine that slices open the outer envelope, another machine that opens the secrecy envelope that holds the ballot. the ballot is unfolded and fed into a high-speed processors that can handle 32,000 ballots an hour. the state supreme court ruled that ballots are postmarked by today or don't have a post mark can be counted until november 6 but those ballots that do arrive after the polls close tonight will be separated, they say, if there is a legal

challenge as the president has threatened. the mayor says the counting will take days. >> we know all people in philadelphia have been through a difficult year and the importance of this election. i close with this reminder, if you should encounter frustrating or difficult situations on election day let your inner strength guide you. stay calm, stay respectful, stay above the fray. with your help we're confident our city will shine as an example how to run an election right. >> president trump and allies have claimed extending the ballot in pennsylvania will lead to voter fraud, massive cheating. the democrats trying to steal the election. the officials here, though, are pushing heatedly back against that saying it is not true. they say the votes will be counted fairly with transparency and honesty. we'll be getting updates tonight after the polls close. they also point out that 12

other states have absentee ballot deadlines that go beyond pennsylvania's. again, the polls close tonight at 8:00 when we should start getting the first results. trace, back to you. >> trace: eric shawn live in philadelphia. thanks. >> president trump: we win pennsylvania, we win the whole deal, you know that. he says i'm a man from scranton. he left at 9 years old. that's okay. >> i chose western pennsylvania for my first stop as a candidate and now for my last stop before election day because you represent the backbone of this country. hard working families. >> sandra: both campaigning hard in pennsylvania. the state is crucial to both sides as the two men battle for 270 electoral votes. let's bring in chris coons. senator, great to have you this morning. tell us about it. why is pennsylvania so key to

joe biden's election? >> sandra, great to be on with you. i've been standing at the polls this morning here in delaware where i'm on the ballot as well. we're seeing record turnout. there are 100 million folks who have already voted absentee or by mail and a dozen states where the counting begins today. it doesn't end today. pennsylvania is likely to be one of those key swing states that may well decide this election. but like pennsylvania, north carolina, wisconsin, georgia, they begin counting ballots today. all those folks out there standing in line, those 100 million folks who have already voted deserve to have their ballots counted. states and counties decide our elections, not candidates. i know and joe knows if every ballot is counted and counted fairly joe biden and kamala harris will win tonight. >> sandra: if it does come down to pennsylvania, senator, are you suggesting that there is no

circumstance in which either candidate could declare victory tonight? >> that's right. if either candidate declares victory tonight what they are trying to do is stop the counting before it's finished. in pennsylvania it's clear they won't be done counting for days. that's the segment on just before this interview was making clear. we have several other states whereby state law they haven't even started opening the ballots until today even though they have had record absentee and mail-in ballots. we need to do what has been done count the ballots including those that have come in before and will be counted after. some folks are saying that no, no, elections are decided on election day. that's not true and you know that. >> sandra: the early voting nature of this is why it has become such a political hot talking point all the way up to election day. here is the early voting in pennsylvania broken down by party and clearly tells you why

that's the case. 66.1% democrat, 23% republicans. it is assumed that we'll see a big republican turnout on election day as history tells us, senator. so to that point, who does that early voting benefit? which party, which candidate? >> well, the early voting if those ballots are all counted fairly benefits our nation. we should want every ballot to be counted. the numbers you just showed suggest that democrats who typically are more concerned about the pandemic, about safe distancing and safe voting practices have been taking the opportunity to vote absentee either in person early or by mail. but i'll remind you in every election going back to the 1860s hundreds of thousands if not millions of americans who are deployed overseas and armed forces, who are diplomats or our own president. >> sandra: i want to get this in year. justin clark on what they see

as the potential legal challenges that may ensue. i'll read it to you. biden's political operatives have been distributing talking points and research to delegitimize election day results by having them refer to it as a red miriage, they're advising people to have -- how do you respond to that, senator? >> first i am a top biden surrogate. i have heard nothing about the talking points i've gotten do not reflect anything like what you just said. they are simply every vote should be counted according to the rules and the laws of the state in which they are cast. and in the state of pennsylvania, that means that folks who are mailing in their ballots up until today should have them counted, period. >> sandra: final thoughts on

the senate races. republicans are telling their supporters that if the senate would flip to a democrat majority the rules would change and you would see the elimination of the filibuster, there would be packing of the court. final thoughts on that. >> final thoughts what i hear from delaware people they care about most is getting us out of the pandemic, moving forward from the recession and bringing our country together. i think joe biden is the right candidate for president to do that for our nation and i think he is more likely to be successful at doing that with democrats in control of the senate. >> sandra: anything specific to what i just asked and relieving those concerns? >> look, my hope is that after the election, if democrats are in the majority, republicans will show a willingness to work across the aisle and we will not need to change the rules to make progress on addressing the pandemic, on resolving some of our internal divisions and disputes as a country an tackling things like prescription drug prices or gun safety.

if we're unable to find any way to move forward working across the aisle, some of the things you predicted may come to pass. but frankly that will be up to republicans and how they respond to this election. >> sandra: big statement. senator coons appreciate you joining us on election day. >> trace: voters heading to the polls in florida. 29 electoral votes. early voting already shattering records in the sunshine state plus president trump and joe biden giving very different closing messages. did their words sway the undecided voters? that story next.

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>> trace: president trump and joe biden delivering sharply different closing messages on the eve of election day. the two candidates making a last-ditch effort to sway undecided voters. charlie hurt is an opinion editor for the washington times. jessica tarlov is a fox news contributor. welcome to you both. part of the president's closing

argument. listen and i'll get your response. watch. >> president trump: the biden lockdown will mean no school, no graduations, no weddings, no thanksgivings, no easters, no christmas, no fourth of july, no future for the youth other than that it's actually quite good. a vote for sleepy joe biden. >> he said joe biden is mentally incapable of handling the presidency, charlie. did he hit the high notes? >> absolutely. also he does it with humor, which i do appreciate in these times. but he has a great message. a record to point to. he had a great message about the economy and accomplishments of the economy under him, of bringing peace to the world without getting into more wars. wars that joe biden has been behind every step of the way. he has been -- and trying to bring some equity back to the

united states in terms of all of the global trade agreements that people like joe biden have been in favor of. absolutely. i think president trump has a great message. the only message we have from joe biden is i'm not mean, i'm not donald trump. i think it's really hard to -- i get there are a lot of people who don't like donald trump but it is really hard to beat somebody with nothing. that's basically what joe biden is offering right now. >> jessica, i'll guess you didn't like the president's closing argument. >> i didn't like the president's closing argument and i haven't liked any argument the president has made since he was inaugurated talking about american carnage. he is the most negative, the most aggressive and divisive of anyone in that level of position of power that we've heard. you would expect in the final days on the campaign trail he could find it in himself to reach out across the aisle to all americans when there are a few people still left up for grabs and say i'm going to be the president for all of you, even those of you who believe

in science and think that you should wear a mask and maybe don't want your kids going back to school to get infected. so the president again catering to the base. we heard from joe biden, him saying no red america, no blue america, president for all americans. exactly where he should be and why he is in the lead. >> trace: here is joe biden. watch. >> the president has waved the white flag of surrender on this virus. i will never do that. his chief of staff said last week we're not going to control this virus. we're not going to control the virus. the first step in defeating the virus is defeating donald trump. >> trace: quick response, jessica, you first. >> i think that's the right note to be taking. it's the number one issue in the country who is best able to handle coronavirus, people are concerned about their health. the president has no plan, no

approach to it. this is why joe biden has managed to stay in the lead. >> trace: i just want charlie finally get your thoughts on joe biden saying i want to know what are the undecideds looking for in the 11th hour? >> i think they are concerned about coronavirus. but they are also concerned about the idea that we're just going to shut down the country again and causal of the misery and mayhem that stems from that. and to say that the president doesn't have a plan on the pandemic is just absurd. of course he has had a plan on the pandemic. he worked it every day. there was at one point during the pandemic people were tired of hearing so much from him because he was so much every step of the way listening to the scientists and listening to the people that work for him the experts that know about this stuff. but he has handled it with wisdom. i think -- the idea that you are trying to figure out a way to keep the country open, keep people working is not a sign that you don't care about it or that you don't care about safety of people.

it is the fact that at some point you have to move forward. >> trace: charlie hurt, jessica tarlov, good of you both. thank you. >> happy election day. >> sandra: back at you. voting underway in texas where a record number of early ballots have been cast. democrats say there is a chance to lone star state could break for biden. a judge dismissing a republican lawsuit to invalidate 100,000 early ballots cast in a heavily democratic county. >> their motive is not to win. it is to delay. their motive is to confuse. their motive is ultimately to reduce the odds that folks will exercise their constitutional right to vote. when being a fan gets tough, and stretching your budget gets even tougher... ...our agents put in the time and legwork for you, ...so saving on auto insurance is easy.

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>> sandra: polls are open in texas. voter turnout expected to set new records in the lone star state with more than 9.7 million ballots already cast in early voting. casey stiegel is live outside of a polling site in dallas. what are you learning there? >> good morning. we're seeing a pretty steady stream of people coming in and out of the poll back behind us in downtown dallas. just near downtown dallas. the big question today, of course, is going to be will the in-person voting numbers mirror what we saw with the early voting totals? because boy, lots of records were broken when you talk about more than 9.7 million ballots that have already been cast. that's more than half of the registered voters in this state. it is a typically low turnout state when it comes to general elections. it is more than all of the votes in 2016. for years there has been this talk about the notion of texas

going purple or even blue. but analysts predict despite the energy and high turnout 2020, they say, is not the year. >> that is possible, we just don't know. very high turnout means there are a lot of folks out there who we don't have a very good read on and they could go either way. i still the end to believe that donald trump will carry texas narrowly by maybe three or four points but the democrats will be increasingly competitive across texas. >> now late yesterday a federal judge tossed out a republican-led lawsuit attempting to invalidate some 127,000 drive-thru votes in and around the houston area. the judge siding with the state supreme court so those votes will, in fact, be counted. but just out of precaution the county election clerk in harris county, texas, says only one

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election day 2020. millions of americans going to the polls casting their vote for donald trump and joe biden. welcome to "america's newsroom" on this tuesday, election day morning. hi, trace. >> trace: the anxiety level is sky high. good morning, i'm trace gallagher. the last round in a fight to the finish. both candidates had a final pitch to voters who have the ultimate power to decide who wins the white house. nearly 100 million americans voted early and now it is up to election day voters to finish the job. here are the candidates with their closing arguments. >> president trump: but you have a power to save america for this country will never be a socialist nation. so get your friends, get your family, get your neighbors, get your co-workers and get out and vote. most important election perhaps in the history of our country.

>> i take nothing for granted. this is a battle for the soul of america. we have to win this. we have to win this together. bring the country together. >> sandra: we have fox team coverage, griff jenkins leading us off today in delaware. phil keating at a polling location in south florida. bryan yenis and chris wallace with the big picture and what to look for tonight. griff jenkins live in wilmington, delaware. what is happening there and what's biden's last-minute push to get voters out? >> here we go. he is pushing indeed, sandra. let me give you a live look behind me. in this parking lot in wilmington they're working on the stage where the former vice president is expected to address the nation when a decision is reached. the same parking lot where after accepting his party's nomination at the end of this

summer he celebrated with supporters in their cars and biden is making his final push to turn out voters in the make or break battleground state. two stops. he is hitting scranton and blue stronghold of philadelphia later. he was in western pennsylvania yesterday joined by his wife and lady gaga making a final appeal to african-american voters. >> he wants to believe he has done things for black americans. honk if you think that's a bunch of malarkey. the truth is donald trump has done more to harm black america than any president in modern history. >> black voters have been a big supporter of biden they aren't taking them for granted at all. kamala harris is going to detroit, michigan to shore up minority voters. >> sandra: and you are looking live at joe biden as he tours

scranton, pennsylvania, his hometown. we heard from him a short time ago he will make his way on to philadelphia after this stop. what about the president? how does he feel about his chances tonight? >> he is feeling pretty confident. he made his final push for voters by going on "fox & friends" this morning saying that based on the crowd size he is seeing at the rallies he has gone to from all the battlegrounds from pennsylvania to michigan, wisconsin, north carolina, florida and georgia, he believes ultimately it will pay off. listen. >> president trump: we feel very good. we have crowds that nobody has ever had before. i think you can agree it's been incredible. the crowds have been incredible. nobody has ever had it before. and so i think that it will turn out a lot of votes. >> the president making a bold prediction in the interview with "fox & friends" saying he believes he will top the 306

electoral votes he got in 2016. we'll have wait and find out. he is not hitting any states but he will travel across town to thank his staff. vice president pence is also staying in washington >> sandra: we're watching it all. thank you. >> trace: as voters head to the polls, a lot of focus on florida. the nation's biggest battleground. election officials are not expecting huge crowds since the sunshine state has already shattered records for early voting. both by mail and in person. the polls in florida close at 7:00 p.m. in the eastern time zone. panhandle counties in the central time zone close at 8:00 p.m. at stake 29 of those crucial electoral votes. phil keating is live in miami beach with closer look at all this. phil. >> good morning, trace. the barrage of campaign tv ads in florida is almost over as

election day is finally here in the biggest swing state in the nation. battleground florida, a state typically won in presidential elections by 100,000 votes. polls opened at 7:00 a.m. early this morning it looked like this. a couple dozen people socially spaced out and max. we spoke with the first guy in line. >> our vote counts. makes a huge difference. right now every vote is counting. it's our future. >> the supervisor of election's office in florida they've been scrutinizing mail-in ballots. where the signature on the ballot isn't like the one on file. people with mail-in ballots can still come up and drop that ballot off in person at an official drop-off box. otherwise if you plan to vote

today, you've got to go in person. the up side is huge turnout and long lines are not expected at all in florida. historic early voting has resulted in about 9 million ballots already cast both by mail and in person. the broward county supervisor of elections he expects today to feel smooth and feel more like a municipal election than a presidential one. >> pretty smooth operation because there are so many people that have voted. i think there are very few people left to vote. i think about 125,000 maybe that will vote tomorrow. that's a very manageable number for broward county. >> every county in florida polls close at 7:00 p.m. tonight. since the panhandle is central time, the division of elections waits until the panhandle is

done to start releasing the state's early tallies at 8:00 p.m. eastern when the nation finally gets to see where florida is headed. >> trace: we could have a lot of early results. phil keating live in miami beach. >> sandra: a live look at joe biden touring his childhood home on the ground in scranton, pennsylvania, where he will spend some time this morning on election day 2020 before he heads to another stop philadelphia a bit later on. let's look at the big picture as we take those pictures in. the "fox news sunday" anchor chris wallace. there is joe biden looking at his childhood home. we heard from the president on this network. your thoughts big picture. election day 2020. >> good morning, sandra. i will be looking at the early closers and the fast counters. let me explain what i mean. the early closers are states that close the polls at 7:00

p.m. eastern, georgia, 16 electoral votes closes at 7:00 p.m. north carolina closes at 7:30 and as phil keating just mentioned, florida closes at 8:00 because of the part of the western panhandle but they are already going to be tabulating the votes in the eastern part of the state and polls close at 7. why fast counters? under their rules they've been counting the mail-in vote, the early vote for weeks now. you are going to see a real dump of votes as soon as the polls close at 7:00, 7:30, 8:00 in all those states. you may see an interesting swing in those states. because they count the mail-in vote and we think it will skew towards biden, you could see biden with a healthy lead in all three of those states early in the evening. then when they start counting the people who vote today, that's expected to skew towards

trump. you could begin to see those blue states turning red and then some of the big metropolitan areas in florida, miami-dade don't get counted until late in the evening. then the question will be how much can biden make up? it will be a real rollercoaster in those three states. i think that donald trump has to win all three of them. if he does, he is on his way to a possible victory. if he doesn't, it could be an early and short night for him. >> sandra: based on everything you said watching the early closers, fast counters, georgia, north carolina, if there was a surprise biden victory that early on in case in point georgia, chris, you've mapped out the various paths to victory. is there one for donald trump if there was an early surprise like that? >> it would be tough. that 16 electoral votes and he is counting on those. he won them four years ago. he would have to do even better in the blue wall. let's talk a little bit about

that. you have these states that close at 8:00 in michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin. the problem there is they're relatively early closers but slow counters. they aren't allowed to start processing and counting the early vote, the millions of people who voted early by mail or in person until today. and they are openly saying it will be tomorrow or thursday. in some cases well into the weekend before they are able to count all of the vote. so in those cases because they will count the in-person vote they will see a surge for trump early and then it will be a question of how much of that is overcome by biden. yes, is there a way for the president to win even if he loses a georgia? yes. if he loses florida with 29 electoral votes, that will be much tougher. >> sandra: if they both fall short of 270. pennsylvania is where we're watching. there is the back and forth with the campaigns over who can

or cannot declare victory based on the outcome tonight and those votes that have to be tallied after election day. chris, what happens? if it comes down to pennsylvania, what does that look like tonight? >> well, we won't have an answer tonight unless it is a blow-out. if it's at all a close race -- remember, in 2016 the president beat hillary clinton by between 1 and 2 percentage points. you won't have an answer in pennsylvania tonight. it will go on and they are allowed to count votes they didn't even get today. i think they have three days until november 6th as long as it is postmarked today. that's what the president has been complaining about. the supreme court decision which validated the state of pennsylvania. we could all be sitting waiting. we talk about election night. maybe it will be decided on "fox news sunday" this sunday. >> sandra: there is your promo.

i think he heard heading into this saying anything can happen. we learned so much back in 2016. we know that there has been polls that we've all watched and dug through so closely to election day. here we are and everybody sort of has an expectation in their head about what happens. you hear everybody that made big calls heading to 2016 and they're hedging because we just don't know, chris. not asking to make a prediction by any means. where is your thinking now compared to where it was in 2016? >> well, in 2016 if you had asked me exactly four years ago right now at 10:12 eastern time i would have said that hillary clinton was going to win. we all thought that. when we got the exit polls at 5:15 it didn't say hillary clinton will win but anybody who read the exit polls thought so. that's one of the reasons that fox news has gone away from the exit polls to this voter profile analysis.

over 100,000 people polled and our decision desk they will be crunching those numbers of people who have been polled and that takes into account people who aren't going to be voting in person because they've already voted by mail. and also takes into account the actual vote results. and i don't know how to do it. you probably don't know how to do it. are you better at numbers than i am. they'll crunch it all together. i asked the head of our decision team last week will we be able to call this election on election night? the big difference between 201 and now is we know what happened that night and that the polls were wrong, they undercounted white blue collar working class people, particular ly in the upper midwest and they crashed the blue wall in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. so anybody who doesn't take that into account and doesn't feel a healthy dose of humility

about what will happen tonight hasn't learned the lesson of 2016. i have. >> sandra: so true. we'll let the voters decide. chris, great to have you this morning. thanks so much. we'll see you tonight. fox news is your election day source. bret baier and martha maccallum, chris wallace, special coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern time on the fox news channel. >> trace: i think it's fascinating when chris wallace says the idea of the early voting and the fast ballot and slow ballot counters. you have all these numbers that will come out at 8:00 from florida and you are going to see this wave and it looks like it will be the early voting will be in joe biden's favor at least in the early hours and then you wonder how much it will sway back. it will be fascinating to see our decision desk wade through those and make these calls throughout the night. >> sandra: looking forward it to, trace. >> trace: the nypd promising to protect new yorkers as they head to the polls today.

>> the nypd is fully prepared to protect every person's right to vote on election day. so please feel safe while you cast your ballot. >> trace: to protect businesses ahead of potential chaos following the election nypd's warning to rioters plus republicans suffering some election law defeats in key states. how the rulings could impact the election. former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy joins us next. - [narrator] with the ninja foodi power pitcher, you can crush ice, make smoothies, and do even more. chop salsas, spoon thick smoothie bowls, even power through dough, and never stall. the ninja foodi power pitcher. rethink what a blender can do.

>> sandra: melania trump has just walked out after casting her ballot this morning in west palm beach moments ago making her voice heard this election day 2020. melania trump the first lady casting her vote. i do not believe she stopped to talk. this was the image we saw just moments ago. trace. >> trace: republicans suffering courtroom losses in two states in the state leading to election day a judge upheld and in texas more than 120,000 from drive-thru voting sites in houston will be counted.

the clerk says it was the right decision. >> he upheld the law and the law is that the 127,000 voters who are eligible here in harris county who followed the rules, who cast their ballots fair and square, those folks are democrats and republicans, old and young, urban, rural, black, white, brown and everything in between. >> trace: former assistance u.s. attorney joins us now. despite what the county clerk is saying you write in the national journal this judge is saying you see joe biden there. he is live in scranton, pennsylvania, if he says something important. the judge said on the one hand those 127,000 ballots can be counted. they can be allowed but on the other hand he was skeptical of whether it is legal to have drive-thru voting. >> well, trace, this is the problem.

we're hearing a lot about how the supreme court basically brushed the republicans off and validated discord or validated -- the problem is the supreme court didn't act before the election to clarify the election rules so what you are doing is putting lower court -- you have situations where either state courts or state bureaucracies have changed the rules of the election that were enacted by the state legislatures under the conditions it's the state legislatures in charge. the supreme court declined to rule on those cases before the election. so what you are having is judges saying we have to segregate the votes. if they turn out to be an issue after the election we'll deal with it then. >> trace: you make a good point. what are you saying in pennsylvania they can count ballots until the 12th of november. north carolina until the 6th of november. the state lawmakers didn't -- that's not what they signed onto. they wanted it to be the sixth

in pennsylvania and the third in north carolina. moving to nevada now, andy, what do you think about that ruling there about the idea that all the practices concerning mail-in ballots is just fine? >> again, trace, it is always going to be the same issue which is that they have tweaked what the legislature put in place and if it turns out that the election is one-sided enough, this will all be much about nothing because it won't need to be litigated. if it's close it could be a profound issue. by not acting before the election the supreme court is going to be perceived if it has to rule after the election of picking the president, which i don't think the court should want that, i don't think the country should want that. >> trace: the judge in the nevada writes the following. he says there is no evidence that any vote that should lawfully be counted has or will not be counted. there is no evidence that any vote that lawfully should not be counted has or will be

counted. there is no evidence that any election worker did anything outside of the law, policy or procedures but somebody if nevada is razor thin, somebody somewhere is going to bring that to another court. >> it's also very interesting to have a court come out and say before the game gets played that there is no -- before the game is finished that there is no evidence that something happened. we won't know what the record is until the end of the day and we won't know whether it makes a difference or not until they start to count. >> trace: so when we talk about the closeness of this. pennsylvania is a big focus. everybody is looking at pennsylvania. do you foresee problems? do you foresee that -- the lawyers are already either in place or on planes right now going to pennsylvania and kind of fanning out. what do you see coming in the days ahead? not the weeks, but just the days ahead in a place like pennsylvania? >> here is the huge problem,

trace. it is one thing to say that you can keep counting after the election as long as you put a rule in place to say the votes have to be postmarked on or before the election. what the judge did in pennsylvania or what the supreme court did was indulge a presumption that says if the ballots are not postmarked at all or if the post mark is ill legible they have to presume they were commit submitted on or before election day which means after the election is over you can get a bunch of non-postmarked ballots, harvest them and change the result that was arrived at on november 3 when the election was supposed to end. that's the big problem. >> trace: it is another fly in the ointment. we'll be talking to you i'm sure in the days ahead. good to see you, sir. thank you. >> sandra: we'll continue to keep an eye on scranton, pennsylvania. election polls are open coast to coast. americans casting their ballots. when do we find out the results

and what are the possible scenarios to look for? ari fleischer handicapping the road to the white house and path to victory. >> president trump: i ended up with 306. 223 to 306. that was a big number. and i think we will top it. i'll leave it at that.

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to the american academy of pediatrics. more on those stories and more download the fox news app. take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of your screen to get started. >> trace: it is an election day unlike any other. president trump is back in washington after crisscrossing the nation in the final push for a second term. kristin fisher is live at the white house. kristin, what's on the president's agenda today? >> good morning, trace. what a day. president trump will be spending most of today at the white house except for a quick trip to his campaign headquarters in arlington, virginia. the white house says he really left it all on the field. he didn't get back here until 3:00 in the morning. the president closed out this campaign the same way he did four years ago with another late night/early morning rally in grand rapids, michigan. he is hoping history repeats itself tonight and he is able to come from behind in the

polls and win. some reporting that he is planning to prematurely declare victory. this morning the president promised that he would wait. >> president trump: when and if there is victory i think we'll have victory. i think the polls are, you know, suppression polls and i think we'll have victory. only when there is victory. there is no reason to play games. i look at it as being a very solid chance at winning here. i don't know what the chances are or how they rate the chances. >> sandra: tonight president trump will be watching the returns come in from right here. he invited people to watch inside the white house. big demonstrations are planned in the streets of washington, d.c. businesses all boarded up. a huge new anti-scale fence

erected the perimeter of the white house. people are planning for the worst and hoping for the best. it is tough to overstate how difficult it is to see the white house on election day in america. trace. >> trace: kristin fisher live at the white house. thank you. >> president trump: actually the last three days reminds me -- i hope it reminds me of four years ago. tremendous changes have taken place over the last week, tremendous. >> like what? >> president trump: we think we're winning texas very big. we think we're winning florida very big. we think we're winning arizona very big. i think we'll do very well in north carolina. i think we'll do very well in pennsylvania. >> sandra: president trump sounding optimistic as voters head to the polls today. ari fleischer former white house press secretary has a big night of election coverage ahead for you and all of us

here. good to see you early this morning as we take a dive into the states in a moment the president just mentioned, that they are as a campaign feeling strong about. first want to talk about what we just saw from the biden campaign. he is on the ground there in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. talking about some of these key counties we're watching in pennsylvania where the candidates spent a lot of time on the ground, ari. philadelphia county, he is making those two stops on election day. pennsylvania, does it come down to this state tonight, ari? >> it sure does. president trump can't win without pennsylvania. he has to have pennsylvania. and biden people think they can still win pennsylvania. which is remarkable. pennsylvania is historically blue state. on this one instance biden is playing a little defense. pennsylvania is it. >> sandra: i've got up on the screen campaign stops by each candidate. it was kind of fun to tally them up and take a look in the

key states of pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, and how much time the candidates did spend on the ground there. of course, pennsylvania was just over the border from biden's home in delaware. he did spend a lot of time there. 26 stops he made. three in wisconsin. you compare that to hillary clinton in 2016. six stops in michigan. for president trump a lot of time in those midwest states, wisconsin eight stops, pennsylvania 13. that's half of joe biden's but still a lot of time and in michigan 7 stops there, ari. as we work our way through hours from the polls closing tonight, you look at the campaign spending in a state like michigan nearly $100 million spent on the part of biden and his allies to president trump's $21 1/2 million in that state alone. does it hurt the trump campaign? >> well, you always want to spend more but the question is did you spend enough. i have never believed that spending in the presidential is

determinative. i think campaigning is more important. what you really see here at the end of the day how the president has poured it on. the number of his rallies. he wants this thing and working for it far more than joe biden who also wants it but the president is more energetic. spending money in a presidential, if you determine who would win by that basis tom steyer would be president of the united states. >> sandra: that's a good point. we brought up wisconsin's number as well. $100 million spent there. biden topping the trump campaign spending nearly $63 million. want to take us through the what if map as we look for the race to 270 and possible scenarios you see working out here. we've done it with karl rove. he looks at playing around with some of the northern great lakes state, wisconsin, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. a lot of your electoral map counting comes down to one key state that is arizona. so what does that assume, ari?

>> here is the way i see donald trump winning. he will keep everything he had in 2016 with the exception of wisconsin and michigan. turn them blue. president trump takes pennsylvania, takes florida, ohio, georgia, iowa, north carolina, same states he had in 16. does he also take arizona? if he keeps everything he had in 16 except for michigan and wisconsin, wins pennsylvania and does not win arizona, joe biden is the next president. if he takes pennsylvania and arizona -- >> sandra: we have the availability to put maine 2 into play. does that go to trump or biden? >> biden. >> sandra: okay. i'll color that in. and nebraska 2 goes red. >> nebraska goes red. if he takes arizona he will get over the top anyway. >> sandra: let's get the exact

total. if i do that we get the exact total. here is the scenario you play out assuming those states that president trump keeps leaving arizona in play there. joe biden comes to 259 electoral votes to president trump's 268. that makes arizona key. add that 11 electoral votes puts trump at 279. if it was to go to joe biden, of course, then you would see the numbers change and joe biden would come to an even 270 and president trump would be left with 268. is that a likely scenario or what are you playing around with? >> no, that's what i see. i don't think the president will win michigan or wisconsin. i know some people do think he will. i think he will come short there. i think he will win pennsylvania. so then all eyes on arizona. >> sandra: fascinating. thank you for taking us through that. ari. we'll see you tonight. thank you so much. >> see you tonight. >> trace: in 2016 we had the

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the up 610 points. investors weighing what the outcome of the race might mean for the bottom line as voters head to the poll. let's bring in charles payne. the market looks g. is that indicative of something in your opinion? >> there is a lot of nerves. trace, i go into the nuances of the market. there are 11 sectors that make up the stock market. look at the s&p 500 more than the dow. that tells the story. historically what everyone should understand is the s&p 500 three months into the election has a track record for predicting if the incumbent will win. this works every election going back to 1984 and 20 out of the 23 election cycles. a good track record. the newances of the market, trace. energy has been on fire the last four days. that sort of says that people believe maybe trump will pull it out. not that he is as much

pro-energy as that we heard joe biden saying that his one goal is to get rid of the energy sector. financials look a little better the last couple sessions. again, what does that tell me? tells me the market maybe doesn't think we'll end up with a treasury secretary warren or sanders. that's a relief. >> trace: investment strategist at edward jones says the following. as the election dust settles, a growing cone me, rising corporate profits and favorable interest rate traditions will transpire under either administrations and it will be the more powerful guide for financial markets in the coming years. you agree with that, charles? >> i agree that whoever wins is set up for a 2021 that can be the most explosive growth year we've seen in a long time. households right now, the debt to disposable income the lowest ever. 2.7 trillion in savings. it is really amazing.

we have a manufacturing boom happening, a housing boom happening. imagine if you had on a layer of stimulus there? whoever wins has a chance for vaccine approval next year to spark enormous growth in the economy and stock market. i do worry because i think it could come to an abrupt halt if you have higher taxes, more regulations layered onto that. i don't think it goes on for years. whoever wins is poised to have a great 2021. >> trace: i want to talk about the next few days. if there is no results of the election over the next few days, say a week, i know the markets hate uncertainty. what happens in that week, charles? >> i'm not sure. we do look back at the hanging chads and the s&p took a little bit of a hit. but again short term. you can go throughout history and see where there were some hiccups in the market. i really caution folks about

making any changes in your portfolio over something like that. any kind of crazy hijacks or wild -- we will have a peaceful transition of power, i hope it's this week. make sure -- it is good to talk about and great fodder but i worry that people act when they see stuff like that. focus on the long term. focus on the fundamentals and you will be much better off. >> trace: are the markets figuring in who takes control of the senate and the white house or just mostly the white house? >> that's a great question. if you look at the proposals of a would be president bide -- he could get rid of the tax cuts that would have enormous damage

and the infrastructure. a lot of wall street like the idea of more money. borrow or taxes, let's throw it into the market. they don't care where it comes from. right now i think the street doesn't seem to believe that there will be a blue wave. i don't think the dial will be up 600 points and indexes will be up more. >> trace: i'll talk more in the days to come and see if you're right. thank you, good to see you. >> sandra: thank you, charles. pennsylvania voters could be playing a decisive role in choosing the next president. next a look at both joe biden and president trump's efforts in the crucial battleground state and whether it was enough to get voters to back them. >> president trump: i think we'll do very well in pennsylvania. we think we're doing very well everywhere. it's more than thinking, you know, we're seeing trends. (mom vo) we fit a lot of life into our subaru forester.

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>> president trump: only in pennsylvania. we win pennsylvania, we win the whole deal, you know that, right? just like last time. we want to have the same result as we had last time. >> i chose western pennsylvania for my first stop as a candidate and now for my last

stop before election day because you represent the backbone of this country. hard working families. >> sandra: both candidates hit the campaign trail hard in pennsylvania in the final days of campaigning each seeing victory here as crucial to their chances of winning the white house. we're live in wilkes berry, what are you seeing there? >> this morning at about 5:00 a.m. people started lining up with lawn chairs. polls opened up at 7:00 a.m. now a steady stream taking 5 to 10 minutes to cast their votes. the name of the game in pennsylvania is turnout. unlike other states the majority of voters in pennsylvania have waited to cast their votes in person, about 2/3. the majority of those voters are registered republicans. we are loong at two -- two big counties. we're south of scranton, biden's hometown.

it went for obama and biden twice and then all of a sudden the president flipped it in 2016 winning by 26,000 votes thanks to white, blue collar union workers. can the president widen that margin further this year? he may need to to counter the potential gains by biden in places like bucks county, philadelphia suburbs. it went for clinton by less than a percentage point. biden's camp is hoping to widen that margin tonight. meantime close to 3 million mail-in ballots are being processed this morning. it takes 45 seconds per ballot. two envelopes need to be opened before they get to the ballot and taken out and stacked in a pile and will start counting them tonight when polls closed. >> poll watchers will be there to watch the whole process, both republican and democratic poll watchers. a very transparent process.

no forgery that will go on. it's mechanical. >> one of the main reasons why it will take longer is the republican led legislature and democratic governor couldn't come to a consensus to give a one day head start to start that counting. we'll be waiting long hours into a couple of days probably. >> sandra: all eyes on that state tonight. thank you. >> trace: after weeks of rallies today is the day. how confident is the trump campaign? trump campaign senior advisor lara trump joins us ahead as the final ballots of the 2020 election are now being cast nationwide.

>> sandra: americans hitting the polls right now across the country. a live look in ohio and pennsylvania. while in some states the ballot counting is already underway after early voting in this election smashed all kinds of records with nearly 100 million ballots cast before the big day. and that is today. welcome back to "america's newsroom," election day 2020. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good day to you. i'm trace gallagher. months of campaigning across the country in the thick of a surging pandemic now coming down to this. president trump is back in d.c. after a battleground blitz over the last few days while joe biden visits his home state of pennsylvania on this election day, a state that could be a game changer for both sides.

as the candidates deliver their final messages to all the undecided voters still out there. >> everybody knows who donald trump is. let's keep showing them who we are. folks, it's time to stand up and take back our democracy. we can do this. we can be better than what we've been. >> president trump: we are returning power to you, the american people. with your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting, and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. [cheering and applause] >> sandra: lara trump, trump 2020 campaign senior advisor is standing by. first live fox team coverage from the big battlegrounds. we're in philadelphia. we're in milwaukee and atlanta and one is in north carolina.

we begin to jackie heinrich to kick things off. how is joe biden feeling this morning? >> good morning, sandra. joe biden is feeling pretty good. last night his final campaign event in the battleground state he most wants to win. he said that things looked good both because it represents part of the what his campaign called the easiest path to 270 electoral votes and personal for him in that state. the former v.p. wasn't about to have the president have the last word in scranton yesterday. he made time for a canvas kickoff event today. first stopped at his son's grave. he usually does that on sundays. his only two grandchildren in tow with him he mingled with voters and made a final push in scranton. the suspicious catholic who doesn't want to make predictions once time around is expressing some faith. >> the steelers got a big win yesterday and the eagles got a big win last night. we can both be happy.

folks, i have a feeling we are coming together for a big win tomorrow. >> the campaign said yesterday that biden is expected to address the country here probably, though, very late tonight, sandra. >> sandra: and we heard from the president a bit earlier this morning in a new interview right here on this network. what are we hearing how he is feeling and the level of optimism heading into tonight? >> president trump is feeling very enthusiastic and made big prediction saying he feels like he is going to surpass the 306 electoral votes he got in 2016. he says that the polls don't scare him because after seeing all of these crowds at his massive rallies in 10 rallies in two days there is so much enthusiasm. >> president trump: where you have 30,000, 40,000. we had a 51,000 people.

that's the ultimate poll. better than somebody that said he interviewed 213 people. >> the president made his final stump in an interview on "fox & friends" warning what the country would look like under a biden administration. but he said that could only happen through voter fraud in the past. his lawyers are poised to attack in ballot counting disputes across battleground states including pennsylvania where the president is not happy with the supreme court decision allowing those ballots to be counted up to three days after the election. the president will be watching the results trickle in from the white house, sandra. >> sandra: thank you. >> trace: nearly 100 million americans voted early with with many of them mailing in their ballots. philadelphia started processing them early this morning in the city's convention center. but president trump railed against the state which allows mail-in ballots to be received up to three days after election day. >> president trump: if you look

at philadelphia, the amount of harm that has gone on there during elections. philadelphia has been a disaster as far as i'm concern. not everybody will say it. they don't like saying it. philadelphia will be a disaster. we are putting these people on the honor system. there is no reason for doing this and it delays the election. >> trace: eric shawn is live in philadelphia. what does the process entail? >> trace, right now in the building behind me at the philadelphia convention center, the election workers are going through the ballots, the mail-in ballots one-by-one and they have hundreds of thousands to count here. let's take a look live inside right now. they are socially distanced, of course, at separate tables and have these machines. it is a massive operation expected 2 1/2 million mail-in ballots in the state. 3-1 democratic in the city about 400,000 mail-in ballots

are processed. the ballots are stored in a locked room and go through a machine that slices open the envelope. another one opens the envelope and the secrecy ballot is then taken out. that ballot unfolded by human hands fed into a high-speed processors that can go through 32,000 ballots in an hour. the state supreme court ruled that can be counted until the 6th. the polls that come after tonight they will be separated if there is a legal challenge as the president threatened. the philadelphia district attorney vows the votes will be counted. >> every vote needs to be counted. a vote for donald trump or joe biden needs to be counted. a vote for anyone needs to be counted. that is how our system works. and then after they are counted we will figure out who won.

>> president trump and his allies have claimed this process of extending the deadline to friday here in philadelphia will lead to voter fraud and the democrats stealing the election. it turns out that 12 states have deadlines that go past even further than pennsylvania does and there are no official reported problems yet. we have seen some claims on social media but officials have said that a lot of this could be disinformation and to discount that. only get the information from the officials specifically those here say that this process will not lead to cheating. there will be transparency and honesty in counting every vote. we won't get the totals of the mail-in ballots until after the polls close at 8:00 p.m. tonight here in philadelphia. trace, back to you. >> trace: eric shawn live in philadelphia.

thank you. >> sandra: former homeland security secretary jay johnson says foreign election interference is happening right now. the obama-era official says iranians have attempted to intimidate voters and russia launched a large scale effort. their plan is unclear. johnson's comments come a month after u.s. intelligence officials issued a similar warning about the two countries. >> trace: cdc allowing covid positive patients to vote in person as long as they observe safety protocols wearing a mask, social distancing and sanitizing hands before and after voting. infected voters should tell poll workers they're sick. americans have the right to vote regardless whether they're sick or in quarantine. >> confluence of crises unlike anything in living memory. we're still in the battle for the soul of america.

decency, honor, respect. where has it gone with this president? >> president trump: if you want your children to be safe. if you want your values to be respected, if you want to be treated with honor, dignity and respect, then i am asking you to go tomorrow and vote for a person named president trump. [cheering and applause] >> sandra: the candidates making their closing arguments in the 2020 white house race with both the president and joe biden making pitches to undecided voters as americans across the country make their voices heard on this election day. how confident is the trump team? joining us now lara trump, trump 2020 campaign senior advisor. good morning to you. what is the mood inside the campaign this morning? >> well good morning. we feel really positive. we've all worked so hard over the past several months. really our campaign never shut down. we have kept it going since the win in 2016. we have built a ground game that is unprecedented and the republican party.

our entire family has been spread out across the country over the past several months working hard and i have to tell you we're poised for what we think is a historic win tonight for president trump. >> sandra: we know on the trail the president has spent a lot of time going after joe biden's mental fitness. he appeared to do that again in a new interview on fox this morning. here it is. listen. >> president trump: joe biden is not prime time. he is not. he never was actually. his location where he was, he was in ohio. he says i'm in iowa. it is great to be with the people of iowa. and they start screaming no, no, you're in ohio. that's happened many, many times. >> sandra: is that the closing argument of the president and his campaign or is it more about the economy, fighting covid, safety in our streets? what is the closing argument from your campaign? >> well, the closing argument is that donald trump has been able to deliver for the

american people in four years more than joe biden has ever dreamed of delivering in 47 years. so people i think can feel the positive impact of donald trump as president. we have seen the great economic highs, the unemployment lows under this president. renegotiation of trade deals that don't forget joe biden got us into the bad trade deals like nafta. this is a president that rebuilt and revitalized our military but 100% accurate to say there is something that has slowed down about joe biden. a lot of people have seen it. we saw it on stage during the primary debates a year ago and continued to see the gaffes that joe biden has time after time. he doesn't seem like he is the same joe biden of five or 10 years ago. >> sandra: the deputy campaign manager of the biden campaign went on in a new interview talking about the president, the campaign, trying to create these distractions when it comes down to the ultimate outcome tonight. listen.

>> he is going to try to create distractions. he will try to divide. it's what he has done his entire presidency. it is not going to work. he will fail because the american people are going to determine the outcome of this election. >> sandra: lara, you heard the president in the interview the morning talking about what a mess, he says, pennsylvania ultimately will be when it comes to tallying those votes in that state. he pointed to a few other states as well. so what is the trump campaign message when it comes to that? >> well look, our message has always been we want every single person to get out and vote. we all get one vote in america. we want you to use it today. if you haven't already gone out and voted, do it today, stand in line. look, we have said that this has been an unprecedented year. we have never seen this universal vote by mail situation. unchecked in many respects in a lot of states. they've never done something like this before. so what we've said is we want donald trump to win by such an overwhelming margin of victory it doesn't matter how many mail-in ballots come in late or

if there is fraud. this is going to be a free, fair election and every single america to get their one vote and cast it. >> sandra: as far as that battle, though. i know the president talked about he has the lawyers at the ready. for those ballots that right now are -- will be legally counted in that state after election day postmarked by election day. three days after. so what would we see if it comes to pennsylvania on the part of the campaign to ramp up those efforts to stop those ballots from being counted? >> we're not trying to stop any ballots from being counted. we just want it to be a fair election and what the president has been saying from day one. if there is any question as to the validity of a ballot or many ballots we're ready with our team to contest that and say these are not accurate and valid. but the president has always said he wants it to be fair. he wants everyamerican to get out and use their one vote and

vote in this election. the best thing we can do about the future of america. we aren't saying that any ballot shouldn't be counted but it should be done in a legal and fair way. >> sandra: chris coons, we had him on earlier talking as a biden surrogates and said about the outcome tonight. >> if either candidate declares victory tonight what they are trying to do is stop the counting before it is finished. we want to have a free and fair election. we should do as has always been done count the ballots including those that have come in before and will be counted after. some folks are saying that no, no, elections are decided on election day. that's just not true. >> sandra: you say what? >> we're not the ones that said you shouldn't concede the election. hillary clinton said under no circumstances should joe biden concede this election. that's not what we have said on our side at all. we feel, sandra, this is going to be a historic night. i think the polls have been so inaccurate with this president.

i continue to hear from people that say i went in and voted. i have lied to my friends about voting for donald trump. people have not been talking to pollsters and we think it's going to be a landslide victory and we aren't going to need to take this into further days. >> sandra: i have to leave it there. we remember 2016 watching you and your family watch as the results come in. what are your plans tonight for watching that? >> well, we're all going to be together tonight like we were in 2016. we got into this fight together in 2015. have fought every step of the way and we'll be excited to be together to watch it happen again tonight. >> trace: millions of americans are heading to the polls today. here is a live look in georgia where voting is now underway. fox news has you covered in all the key battleground states. plus the candidates make a final push in pennsylvania. will their efforts pay off? and what are the states to watch tonight. former house speaker newt gingrich will join us on that next. >> the story of the election is

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>> president trump: i would like to find out on november

3rd the end of the evening or, you know, late into the morning, whenever, who won the election. that doesn't allow that to happen. unless there is a blow-out. unless you don't need pennsylvania. it is very likely pennsylvania is a very important state. i think we'll win pennsylvania. >> trace: president trump on "fox & friends" earlier saying he would like to see election results from pennsylvania tonight. 20 electoral votes are up for grabs there. more than any swing state except texas. everyone will be watching pennsylvania after the polls close. newt gingrich is the former speaker of the house and fox news contributor. always great to see you. before we get to pennsylvania we know we'll get some information early. a lot of it. georgia closes at 7:00. polls close in north carolina at 7:30. florida 8:00. what states are you focused on, sir, and why? >> well, you just mentioned three of them because they're

early. if trump carries all three and he certainly seems from the voting pattern to be way ahead in florida now, i think he is ahead in georgia. and probably ahead in north carolina. so if he carries all three he is moving towards a very good night. if he loses any one of the three it will be a much longer night for him. then you go north, pennsylvania really matters. so does michigan, wisconsin. if minnesota which has not voted republican since 1972 goes for trump, he will have a really big night. the other place would be arizona which is a hard-fought state. those are the kind of places i look at and start to take notes to see how it is going. but so far at least i think it's pretty clear that the odds are very high the president will win and that, in fact, he will win by a bigger margin than the pennsylvania electoral vote.

so while pennsylvania may degenerate into a fight it probably won't be central the way florida was back in 2000. >> trace: there has been a lot of focus on pennsylvania in the last few days. candidates have spent a lot of time there. one of the progressive analysts said this. it is hard not to look at this crowd that trump assembled in butler pennsylvania and not be completely terrified that he could win again. you see the sea of people there and we know the enthusiasm for the president is vast. the question is, is it deep enough? >> well i watched a little earlier on fox. joe biden in scranton for his last stop standing in the middle of the street surrounded by maybe 30 people and looked like a bad congressional candidate with no crowd. my guess is that one trump rally in rome, georgia, he had somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 people in a town of 36,000. they came from all over tennessee, alabama, north

georgia. that one rally probably had more people than every biden and kamala harris rally this fall just by itself. so at some point you have to say as a friend of mine said the quantitative numbers may look like biden is doing already but qualitatively when you look at the two campaigns and when you watched the other day when obama had to help biden as though he were virtually a senile old man and had to yell at him three times in order to get his attention. had to point out he left his mask behind. you look at that sequence and ask yourself how many undecided voters are going to decide that guy is capable of being commander-in-chief and you look at 14 rallies in three days? and you realize trump has extraordinary energy level. >> trace: separately i want to get your take on an op-ed you wrote talking about potential violence on election night. you write the following.

something obscene and repulsive of american businesses having to board up store windows because they know their government can't protect them from anti-american barbarians and thugs. something unamerican of mobs going into restaurants and neighborhood and intimidating innocent citizens. president trump should respond to the lawless mob as president abraham lincoln did. you go on to say he did it with law and order. your final thoughts, mr. speaker. >> well, i find it very disturbing that we have caved in in city after city to allow barbarians and thugs to destroy things to such a degree that we're now preemptively putting up wood over the windows because we just assume that the city government can't defend itself. i think the time has come to draw a line in the sand and say you do this we'll catch you on film and we'll track you down and you are going to go to jail for a long time. we are not going to tolerate this kind of violence in a free

society. >> trace: a big night. i know you're part of it. it was great to see you. thank you. >> good to see you. >> sandra: fox news alert now a deadly terror attack in austria, what police have learned about the gunman and his links to isis. plus the battle for wisconsin. a live look at early ballots being counted in that state. the closing messages president trump and joe biden had for voters there. we are live in the badger state.

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>> sandra: top stories making headlines. an investigation underway into the deadly terror attack in vienna, a gunman killed and wounded many before he was shot by police. >> trace: in the u.s. gun sales surged last month up 65% as

this year's firearms sales are on a record pace with more than 18 million sold so far in 2020. >> sandra: bail is set at $2 million for kyle rittenhouse accused of killing two people over a police shooting in kenosha, wisconsin. download the fox news app, take a picture of the qr code at the bottom of your screen to get started. >> trace: president trump holding a rally in kenosha, wisconsin in a last minute push yesterday. the president's visit coming two months after violence rocked the city following the police shooting of jacob blake. mike tobin is live in milwaukee, wisconsin. mike, why is kenosha county so important? >> well, of all the counties that president trump won in 2016, kenosha county had the thinnest of margins, 238 votes made the difference for president trump.

here at central count in downtown milwaukee people are processing early and absentee ballots. 400 volunteers doing that expecting to be counting into the small hours of the morning the way george christianson put it. it is more important to get it right than to get it fast. you talk about the president -- the candidates making their last-minute visits to wisconsin. they have had a lot of attention in the final hours of this campaign. three visits from joe biden. five visits from the president. the president stopping last night in kenosha. it provides a platform to hit a familiar theme of law and order. >> president trump: when the violent mob came to kenosha biden opposed sending in the national guard. of course you remember this, right? he didn't want to send in the guard. he thought it was terrible to send in the guard and we sent in the guard and saved kenosha. we saved kenosha.

>> trace: businesses in madison have boards on the windows in anticipation of trouble. not so much downtown milwaukee here. kenosha has a big presence of law enforcement and they're feeling pretty secure at this point. as far as people being swayed, the polls here in wisconsin have been consistent throughout the process. informal conversations with voters in wisconsin, no one has told me they have been swayed by the last-minute visits of the two candidates. speaking with the chairman of the republican party here in wisconsin, he tells me the goal is always to sway some undecided voters and reach them but overall is the rally the base. the places the president hit janesville, kenosha, west salem, green bay. they could make a difference if this race gets tight. trace. >> trace: mike, thank you. >> sandra: wisconsin did play a key role four years ago when donald trump flipped that state red.

can it happen again? sean duffy is a former wisconsin congressman and joins us now. if i can dig into some of those counties that you just heard mike talking about on the ground there in wisconsin. when you go to the southeast corner of the state racine county you remember just how small that margin of victory was for president trump but how key some of these counties were. you go north of there into racine county. what are you seeing as far as some of these counties and reminding our viewers there were 23 counties in your state that flipped for donald trump in 2016 that voted barack obama in both 2012 and 2008. can he do it again? >> what you are pointing to is southeast wisconsin. we remember the kenosha riots. also riots in waukesha and wauwatosa. are we getting the suburban mom

votes out or the law and order message not working? i guess that's yet to be seen. those are the big republican areas. if you also look and pull up dane county where madison is at. >> sandra: i know where you are going. a heavily blue county you are pointing out now. dane county, wisconsin, one that hillary clinton won 75% of the vote in 2016. why are you watching this county? >> dane county is very liberal and growing, right? so the question becomes what is their voter turnout? they are at 80% in early vote what the vote total was in 2016. if they grow that substantially the question becomes can republicans turn out in the rest of the state? if you look at wisconsin we mentioned the two voting centers dane county and the milwaukee and their suburb area. it's a big state. as you look to the north of wisconsin there is a lot of small, rural communities and counties. do those counties turn out, those townships turn out in the

same percentages that dane county turns out? scott walker and donald trump won wisconsin even with dane county because you had republicans in the north that voted in big numbers for walker and trump. can those voters come out and do they vote for trump and can they overcome the wave from liberal dane county and also from milwaukee county as well? and we will wait and see. one of the points, sandra, in milwaukee republicans have never played so hard for the minority vote as we have this year or they have this year in milwaukee. they've run a ton of ads. tens of thousands of dollars and bought radio spots on black radio. does the black vote peel off to 13 or 15% for trump? what's the voter turnout for the african-american vote in milwaukee and it can determine the night as well. >> sandra: i have to finish by that point looking at what wisconsin is seeing as far as covid cases. a huge problem in the state. the latest positivity rate

spiking above 30%, 100 hospitalized in the state. this is one of the key issues that you are dealing with. but as i do look at some of the other campaign points that have been made, you look at the time spent in your state by the candidates, wisconsin three stops by joe biden this time around to donald trump's eight. a lot of time spent on the ground in pennsylvania and michigan as well and then you look at the dollars spent, sean. ly ask you about this. there is michigan, here is wisconsin. joe biden clearly outspending donald trump's campaign in the state. did they spend enough, sean? >> and sandra, that doesn't take into account all the outside money that was spent in wisconsin and the numbers were bigger for biden on outside money than for trump. the spending binge has been huge for democrats. i think it will come down to the ground game and who you can turn out. the trump campaign has 3,000 staffers in the battleground

states around the country now. that's important. you mentioned the rallies. i think the rallies are important for the sole reason that the media and social media says if you are a trump supporter are you a racist, misogynist. when other potential trump voters see so many people coming out in support of president trump it boosts them to support trump. i think that matters as you analyze the ground game of both candidates. >> sandra: thanks for working through that with us, sean. here we go on into election night 2020. thank you very much, sir. good to see you. >> trace: very interesting. congress is now gearing up for a bitter battle in case the election is contested or tied. what nancy pelosi is saying about that possibility. plus democrats feeling bullish on georgia. why the stakes are so high in the peach state. >> i got a call that said look, georgia could be the state. i told michelle i'm sorry, babe. i've got to go to georgia.

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redefining insurance. >> what if this is being fought in the courts or there is a constitutional crisis? there are all kinds of scenarios. and in some of them the speaker of the house plays a prominent role. >> the speaker of the house is ready for that prominent role. that's not where it's at right now. we want to be ready for a big vote tomorrow to dispel any thought other than on january 20th joe biden will be inaugurated president of the united states. >> trace: house speaker nancy pelosi saying congress is ready to decide the election if the results are disputed and no clear winner by the time electors are due to vote. juan williams is a co-host of "the five". i don't know if you heard the sound bite. seems like nancy pelosi is ready and eager to help possibly remove the president from office.

>> she could be president, trace. if you follow that line that there is such a dispute, one possible scenario is that you have nancy pelosi as speaker of the house sit in as president. this is part of the safeguards that the founders put in place. when you vote for president, you are actually voting for electors and then that has to be confirmed by the secretary of state in the state in which you've voted. and then the governor has to sign on. that is sent to the congress and all sorts of potential disputes then get locked in as whether or not they certify that vote before it goes to the electoral college. if that's the case, then nancy pelosi is right, she has to be ready for the possibility that congress could decide the election. >> trace: you talk about disputes. a dispute over what is happening in pennsylvania, north carolina, the fact they can count ballots after election day. >> president trump: i think it's a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after

an election. i think it's a terrible thing when people or states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over because it can only lead to one thing. that's very bad. you know what this thing is. it's a very dangerous, terrible thing. >> trace: do you see legal battles making this into the election, making it a thing that can last for days and days and weeks? >> i thought halloween had passed. that's a scary scenario. you know, the reality is that it's a states rights issue. the process we're going through today, the states control the vote in their jurisdiction. the states have different rules as to when you can count ballots, when they are processed properly, and when the vote tally is announced. >> trace: it's the state

legislature. these policies and guidelines have now been put in place by election boards and various other people. that's the contention. >> i disagree. in most cases the legislature has put in place and what you are arguing about then is interpretations by the board of elections or the like. the courts then have intervened in some cases as we saw yesterday in texas to say that people at a drive-thru voting center are allowed to vote. those votes will be tallied in the state of texas. what you are seeing when you hear the president talk about votes being tallied over election day and the like, he is trying to undermine faith in the system. that has been the process in most states forever. that's just a fact. several states have always done it that way. now i think there is an emphasis coming from the white house that says call into question the way the voting is done. i think that's unfortunate. >> trace: back to straight

politics, juan. the idea you write in the hill. you think there is the southern wave coming. southern politics has been solid red for most of the last 50 years. thanks to the implosion of the republican party under president trump democrats are in a position to take a sledgehammer to the red wall that has been the basis of republican strength in congress. pretty bold statement, juan. >> you know what i see as we look at this election, trace, is if you look at senate races beginning in north carolina, south carolina, georgia, across the mississippi and then into texas and also the idea that a state like georgia as we heard president obama say that georgia is in play, this is radical. this has never been in my lifetime. you are a younger fellow of the for me it's wow, since president johnson 64 civil rights act, 65 voting rights act says the south will be republican for generations, we haven't seen this. yet here we are today with the

possibility of several of those states not only possibly voting for a democrat for president but selecting democrats for the senate. >> trace: the younger fellow got you an extra 15 seconds on that one. i appreciate that. great to see you, juan. you are a big part of the election coverage. thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. >> sandra: as democrats make a hard push to win we're live at a polling location next. who is usaa made for? it's made for him a veteran who honorably served and it's made for her she's serving now we also made usaa for military spouses and their kids become a member. get an insurance quote today.

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>> sandra: it could be a fight to the finish for north

carolina's 15 electoral votes as residents there line up to cast their ballots this morning. both president trump and joe biden making their final pitches to voters there. the tar heel state is considered a must-win battleground for president trump. mark meredith is live at a polling location in north carolina. mark, good morning. has the president's campaign blitz in the final days paid off there? >> we're still waiting to find out. republicans think it has been. we have out here all morning long. so far a steady stream of people. we haven't seen any of the major lines where we are in the suburbs north of charlotte. north carolina official efs say they expected not to see major lines. so many people took advantage of early voting. 60% got a chance to vote early with more than 900,000 voting by mail and 3.6 million choosing to vote early. state officials say that means we should know the results tonight not too long after the

polls close. >> we anticipate that we'll have a very good understanding of how the vote will go in north carolina pretty early on election night. of course, we have our security work we have to do and audits and we don't actually certify the vote until many days later but north carolina people will have a good idea how their fellow citizens turned out. >> president trump made one final stop in north carolina monday holding a rally in fayetteville. a lot of people there and stomped for some candidates including the senate race that the entire country will be watching. thom tillis, he won six years ago by less than 60,000 votes and a tremendous amount of money into the race. democrats eager to see if they can flip the senate seat. the republicans trying to hold on. the balance of power could

determine what happens tonight in north carolina. >> sandra: we'll watch that state closely as well as all the others. >> trace: this is a live look in philadelphia. ballot county there, mail-in ballots. what eric shawn was doing this shot earlier they're being counted faster than i thought. each machine can handle 32,000 ballots per hour. that's at a pretty good clip. still we're being told it could be several days before all of the mail-in ballots are counted in philadelphia, pennsylvania. larger. we'll have much more election coverage coming up on "america's newsroom."

>> sandra: election day 2020. a live look at joe abundance plane that has just touched down in philadelphia. everyone can watch election night coverage here. then uni will be over on the fox broadcast network, and we will be anchoring coverage as the results come in 7:00 p.m. eastern time until 1:00 a.m. at least, so catch us on your local fox stations. >> it's going to be great to be with you, and i tell you, you look at all the numbers. we have reams of information. all the pundits have weighed in,

but nobody is certain what is going to happen tonight until the numbers start coming out, and we will start those as soon a show begins. then we will have results for you. >> sandra: we will see you tonight. that's it for us. "outnumbered" starts now. ♪ >> harris: the nation, the world are watching us. america, as w we head to the pos on this election day after a bitterly fought campaign between president trump and former vice president joe biden. nearly 100 million ballots already cast. by mail or early in person voting. that's more than doubled of 46 million who voted early in 2016, and of course, voter turnout will be a key factor in the selection. all this, and the president is said to leave the white house